Runs 11-31 March: See How Player-Built Mods Can Shape the Live EVE Frontier Universe
REYKJAVÍK, Iceland – 12 February 2026 – CCP Games today announced the EVE Frontier × Sui Hackathon 2026, an online hackathon running 11-31 March 2026, with a $80,000 USD prize pool. The hackathon invites builders to create mods running on Smart Assemblies – configurable in-game structures such as turrets, stargates, and storage units – or outside the game through external applications connected to the same live universe.
EVE Frontier demonstrates the unique power of Sui – supporting galactic-scale battles, true ownership, and persistent worlds through large-scale moddable infrastructure. Designed as a moddable survival universe, players can meaningfully shape their experience as they rebuild civilization from its ashes. Players can change how the world behaves through mods that stay active over time, can be expanded by others, and continue to affect the shared universe across the entire galaxy.
Announcement Trailer: https://youtu.be/4nlMjQif2hE
Mods can live inside the EVE Frontier game world by running within Smart Assemblies: player-built, in-game structures such as storage units, gates, and defensive systems. These structures, powered by Sui’s blockchain-enforced modding and co-creation, act as the physical hosts for player creativity, allowing for new logic and behavior to be installed within them, while able to be interacted with, defended or destroyed by other players. Mods can also live outside the game, as external applications that connect to EVE Frontier through an official API. These external tools, such as maps, dashboards, coordination platforms, and analytics services, do not exist as objects in space, but can also read and react to live game data in real time.
With the theme ‘A Toolkit for Civilization’ the 2026 Hackathon asks players to create mods from the supportive to the bizarre. Entries can be deployed into the live server, where players can use them as part of the judging process, and with the community vote playing a key role in deciding the winners.
“EVE Frontier is built on the idea that a virtual world shouldn’t be static,” said Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, CEO of CCP Games. “This is the next step in game modding: where builders aren’t just modding a client or a tool, but modding the server itself in real time, through systems that are designed to be extended. The Hackathon is an invitation to explore what happens when modding becomes part of a live universe.”
“EVE Frontier is designed to be built by players, not just played by them,” said Adeniyi Abiodun, Chief Product Officer at Mysten Labs, the original contributors to Sui. “Our goal is to provide the infrastructure to build ‘forever games,’ moddable worlds that can keep evolving. While EVE and Sui provide the foundation, it’s the builders who drive innovation. I speak for both CCP and Mysten Labs when I say we can’t wait to see what participants in this hackathon will create.”
The hackathon is open globally to individuals and teams of up to five participants. Full details on registration, timelines, submission requirements, and modding resources are available at: http://deepsurge.xyz/evefrontier2026
For more information about EVE Frontier, visit www.evefrontier.com. An FAQ can be found at www.evefrontier.com/faq. Assets for EVE Frontier can be found in the press kit.
About CCP Games
CCP is a leading independently operated game developer that has been praised for its artistry, technology and game design that facilitates emergent behavior, empowering players with compelling means of self-expression. Founded in 1997 on the principle of pushing the envelope and breaking new ground on all levels, CCP is on a mission to create virtual worlds more meaningful than real life. With the launch of EVE Online in May 2003, CCP established itself as a pioneer of cutting-edge massively multiplayer games, winning numerous awards and receiving critical acclaim worldwide. CCP is headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland, and has additional studios in London and Shanghai.
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About Sui Foundation
Sui is a next-generation Layer 1 blockchain, designed as the full stack for a new global economy. Powered by an object-centric model, Sui makes assets, permissions, and user data natively onchain, programmable, and ownable. Its unified stack of protocols and primitives provides a composable, end-to-end toolkit for market transformation, delivering centralized-quality performance on decentralized infrastructure. Learn more at sui.io.
About EVE Frontier®
EVE Frontier is an online space survival game. You awake from stasis as the last relic of humanity from a lost age. Civilization has decayed in the ruin of its ambition, feral drone swarms scour its wastes, and survivors fight to gain control over its resources. In the shadow of the Trinary, who will you become? Learn more: www.evefrontier.com.
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